Inside GMT Dyson’s Dodecahedron Quest for Fun! Bruce Heard and New Stories Fantasy Cafe Lynn’s Book Blog Sitrep Hex and Violence Desperation Morale Banzai!! Dungeon Fantastic Gaming Ballistic Let’s GURPS The Collaborative Gamer Don’t Forget Your BootsWith “Came Tumbling After” winding up fast, Patch and I played the ‘Middle Gate‘ scenario from CC:A Expansion #6 over the last couple of Tuesdays. This is the ‘famous part’ of the battle, and features a special rule for three[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After the desert adventure, Patch and I decided it was time to get back to Festung Budapest. The sixth scenario features a Hungarian countertack up the hill on the SW map. Since I attacked up the hill last time, I[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the first major supplemental releases for GURPS 4th Ed was GURPS Powers. The introduction for the book states that it is a ‘how to’ guide, and can be considered to be Basic Set: Powers. I disagree with this[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My last Advanced Squad Leader game with Patch finished up very quickly. So quickly, in fact, that I’m not going to bother with the normal detailed maps. There’s not a lot to show anyway. Imagine a featureless 33×30 hex plain,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
My latest ASL defeat by Patch was just about finished up, so we decided to do another round of Commands & Colors: Ancients tonight. This time was the Battle of Sepeia, a very strange Expansion #6 battle between the Spartans[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the sixth in a series of reviews of Paradox’s empire management games. See the earlier reviews here: Europa Universalis II: A Tale of Two Europas Hearts of Iron: Europa of Iron Victoria: Nineteenth Century Essay Crusader Kings: A[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Had another get together, and game of Space Empires 4X this last Saturday. Mark paid for pizza to be delivered so lunch would be short, and we got through twelve economic turns this time. There was a little debate on[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A year after putting out Waterdeep and the North, TSR published one of the most unusual boxed sets in RPG history. Usually a boxed set is a variety of material, including a couple of books, and maybe a couple large[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
One of the scenarios in Out of the Attic 2 gave me an immediate ‘I’ve got to see this‘ reaction. OA25 features a defense with a combined French-British-American force in 1942 Tunisia. Patch and I initially slotted it for a[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Patch and I had our regular between ASL games bout of Commands & Colors: Ancients tonight. This time was the battle of Thyreatis in 545 BC. It’s a very unusual battle from Expansion 6. First of all, both sides are[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…